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Train #19 After

Eugene Stevenson

 

 

During the year
he was away, 

railroad
management 

renamed
Train #13, 

changed
the number, 

to Train #19,
after it 

struck & killed
a little girl 

at a grade crossing
in the rain.

 

 

 

Eugene Stevenson, the son of immigrants, the father of expatriates, lives in the mountains of western North Carolina. Author of The Population of Dreams (Finishing Line Press 2022), he is a Pushcart Prize nominee whose poems have appeared in After Hours Journal, Angel City Review, The Hudson Review, Loch Raven Review, San Pedro River Review, Tipton Poetry Journal, & Volney Road Review among others. In the distant past, he worked at the Erie-Lackawanna, New York Central, Penn Central, and Rock Island Railroads.

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